Captain Jack Cureton was b in AR 1826. At the age of 20 he
went withGovernor Yale to the Mexican War in 1846. Colonel Yale was
killed at theBattle Of Buena Vista. Captain J.J. Cureton married Eliza
Price in 1847 atOzark, AR. They moved to Tx in the winter of 1854. In
1855 settled inKeechie Palo Pinto, Co. and built one of the first log cabins
in the thenunorganized country. He was a Captain of the Texas Rangers
and helpedorganize th country in 1857. He commaned the 95th volunteer
Texans in Dec1860, on the Pease River when Peta Nocoma, Quanta Parker's farher
and chiefof the Comanches was killed and took Cynthia Ann Parker and a baby
girlfrom the Comanches and took her back to her people. He took oath
to support theSouthern Confederacy Mar 15, 1861 and served during the Civil War
with theFrontier Regiment whose headquarters were at old Fort Belknap.
He foughtwith the Texans in the Baylor War that ran the Indians out of Texas
to FortSill just before the Civil War. Drove cattle herds from Bosque
Co. Tx. toCamp Cade Ca. through hostile territory in 1852 and 1870.
He died on his farmin Bosque Co. May 12, 1881 after serving Bosque Co. for four years
as sheriff.He left a widow who died in 1906 and six children. He was
buried on the family ranch.The Flat Top Ranch, Walnut Springs, Bosque Co. Tx.